1. „Let´s Meet Under the Spots“
CZECH REPUBLIC
PRESENTATION
Created by
Gymnázium bratří Čapků a První české soukromé střední odborné učiliště s. r. o.
Created for
Comenius Project
„Let´s Meet Under the Spots“

2. ELEMENTARY FACTS
small state situated in central Europe. It is called „the heart of Europe“
three historical parts of the country: Bohemia in the west, Moravia in the east and Silesia on the northeast
79,000 km2
10,300,000 inhabitants

3. OUR NEIGHBOURS
NW, W, SE: GERMANY
NE: POLAND
E: SLOVAKIA
S: AUSTRIA

4. OUR NEIGHBOURS SO, WITH WHO ARE WE THE MOST SIMILAR NATION? Germans?
Polish people?
Slovaks?
Hungarians?
In fact, Czech genotyp is one of the mixted in the whole Europe. Slavonian, Celtic, German, Turkish, Hungarian, Jewish… Everyone is our relative!

5. BIGGEST AND MOST IMPORTANT CITIES
PRAGUE (PRAHA)
Capital city
1,300,000 inhabitans
mythological origin
Medieval, renaissance, baroque, and modern architecture
Charles University
Roman, Gothic, and Baroque Churches
River Vltava
Castles, Galleries, museums, parks…

6. BIGGEST AND MOST IMPORTANT CITIES
OSTRAVA
Modern industrial and culture city
300,000 inhabitans
- centre of music, technology, and heavy industry
Mining university
International music festival Colours of Ostrava
Unfortunately, one of the most poluted areas in the whole Europe…

7. BIGGEST AND MOST IMPORTANT CITIES
OLOMOUC
Centre of Middle Moravia part
UNESCO
100,000 inhabitans
University of Palacký
Once „capital“ of Moravia
gothic, and baroque churches and monuments
Astronomical clock
Famous dialect

8. OTHER IMPORTANT CITIES
LIBEREC
ÚSTNÍ NAD LABEM
KARLOVY VARY
PARDUBICE
HRADEC KRÁLOVÉ
PLZEŇ
ČESKÉ BUDĚJOVICE
ZNOJMO
OPAVA
And many others

9. MOST POPULAR PHENOMENONS IN CZECH REPUBLIC
…AND WHO ARE WE, CZECH PEOPLE?
MOST POPULAR PHENOMENONS IN CZECH REPUBLIC
SOCKER (from 1892!)
BEER
WINE
ICE HOCKEY

10. Stereotypes? The truth? It´s up to you. FEATURES OF CZECH PEOPLE
CZECH PEOPLE SAID TO…
LOVE FUN AND HARD JOKES
HAVE „GOLDEN HANDS“ (smart)
Everybody is the musician
be afraid of gypsies
Reserved and distant behavior
Want to earn much, but work only little
The most atheistic nation in the whole Europe
Stereotypes? The truth?
It´s up to you.

11. MOST POPULAR CELEBRITIES AND FIGURES
Emperor Charles IV
President Tomáš Garrique Masaryk
President and dramatist Václav Havel
Writer and folklorist Božena Němcová
Pedagogist, philosopher, writer, and bishop Jan Amos Komenský

12. AND WHO IS THE BEST ACCORDING TO YOU?

13. AND OUR COOL
SCHOOL!!!

14. AND OUR COOL SCHOOL!!! Business academy
GRAMMAR SCHOOL AND VOCATIONAL SCHOOL
- Humanic and art studies
Business academy
trades and peofessions: hairdreessers, carpenters, confectioner
present and combinated studies

15. AND OUR COOL GRAMMAR SCHOOL SCHOOL!!!
- private, small, friendly, artistic
- human education: literature, drama, modern history, politology, law, design
Students play „Dog and Pussy Cat – fairy tale wriiten by Josef Čapek

16. AND OUR COOL GRAMMAR SCHOOL SCHOOL!!! Ball of graduating students
- private, small, friendly, artistic
- human education: literature, drama, modern history, politology, law, design
Ball of graduating students

17. AND OUR COOL GRAMMAR SCHOOL SCHOOL!!! Students´ art
- private, small, friendly, artistic
- human education: literature, drama, modern history, politology, law, design
Students´ art

18. AND OUR COOL
SCHOOL!!!
VOCATIONAL SCHOOL

19. AND OUR COOL SCHOOL!!! VOCATIONAL SCHOOL CREATIVE WORK AND ART
OF OUR STUDENTS

20. AND OUR COOL SCHOOL!!! … AND THE BEST OF ALL: OUR PARTICIPATION
ON COMENIUS PROJECT
!!!